-๑-๑ ஜ ๑-Chapter 25: Abilities - -๑ ஜ ๑-๑-
-Izaya´s point of view.-
"What happened to you?" Oh god please no.
"Met Shizu-chan." Believable excuse. It was his damned secretary that had asked, sitting at that desk of hers she hadn't come around on spotting the bleeding nose and tissue Izaya was pressing to his face as he entered his beloved office again after the short trip he had went outside.
He would die if he had to tell her what really happened. Crashing head first into one of the poles inside the underground train, yeah as if.
He would never hear the end of it.
"Karma is a bitch, huh? That's what you get for laughing at me," the woman grinned still seeing her chance the get back at her boss for all the times he laughed at her.
But ah, she didn't quite take into consideration that the raven owned a new set of skills by now.
"Is that so?" the raven purred- and for a moment he wondered if she had even heard the last word he had said, because- stop.
The time was already frozen again. His steps quick, the kitchen counter wasn't too far- especially not the salt.
Cap unscrewed, titled upside down right above the woman´s coffee he tossed it back into the kitchen before regaining his initial position.
Unfreezing the woman merely lifted an eyebrow at the raven, not having noticed a thing.
"It's only fair you get to taste your own medicine once in a while," she shrugged, and honestly the raven would have loved to explain the double meaning to her words as she reached for that cup of hers.
Humming happily he walked towards his desk, the lovely sound of retching reaching his ears soon enough as the woman coughed.
"How does the coffee taste~?" the raven grinned as he let himself slump down into his seat- a bewildered expression glaring at him all too quickly.
"When did you-?!"
"Is something wrong Namie-san~?" the raven purred all too innocently knowing that the woman had no evidence or possible connection to him being the one that tinkered with her coffee.
But there wasn't much time to discuss the topic anyway because suddenly the door just flew open- revealing no one else but-
"Hey what are you doing you little shit?" Shizu-chan. Confused the raven turned to look at the blond for a moment- a blink followed, another as he tried to make sense of the blond´s words.
He seemed angry- well maybe not angry actually, izaya knew what a furious brute looked like and this was not furious- more like…. curious? Annoyed? Maybe one of those two.
As far as the raven remembered he hadn't set anything up for the blond the entire week though.
"Would You enlighten me as to what you are talking about?" the raven merely said before the creaking sound of a chair being moved averted both of their attention to his secretary.
"Pay me this month´s check before you die," that was all the raven heard her say as she stalked over to the office´s door that the blond had left open- and gone.
This was seriously happening way too often recently- Namie leaving because the blond showed up- well not that Izaya wasn't partly at fault for that.
"So? What do I owe the pleasure of having you visit me?" the raven questioned once more.
"You did something, with- I don't know, the people," the blond started, and honestly Shizuo didn't even know how exactly he was even supposed to word this- he didn't even know if the flea was really behind what he had seen- but-
It had to be him right?
His guts were telling him so.
Just today way before he decided to head over and pay the flea a visit, he had been on his daily trip through the city with Tom-san. They had had a few more debts to collect- and just as many of their clients chose to, Shizuo suddenly saw one of them hop out of the window- ready to run-
Of course he moved towards the window, not thinking of letting that guy escape- but that's where the funny things started-
Because, the guy just stopped falling-
Midway! he was in the air, a suitcase at hands that was probably having the money he was supposed to pay stored inside- and just like that he hovered in the air for what were minimum ten seconds!
The blond just stood there, underneath the guy- wondering just what- maybe he had hit his head? maybe he was dreaming?
Was he still sleeping and missing his work?
But no- all of a sudden the guy resumed his fall- only to land right to the blond´s feet.
"Ah- Good work Shizuo!" Confused by what had just happened and the guy scared shitless having frozen in front of the blond he turned to look at his old friend as he approached to collect the guy´s debt.
He didn't seem to have noticed anything at all- and to make matters worse all of a sudden it happened again! Right in front of his nose!
Tom was picking up the suitcase that the guy had dropped in fear- and then just- frozen.
He wasn't moving an inch anymore. And that guy wasn't either- only Shizuo seemed to be able to, turning his head, looking back and forth he was almost convinced that this had to be a dream- but then why didn't he wake up already?
Again the two resumed- this time for a longer time span at least.
And yet it wasn't long enough.
After a while it happened again, shorter this time- but it did-
Call it his guts, call it his instincts, the moment he realized he wasn't dreaming he knew the flea had to have something to do with this, and so he headed for the place he suspected him to be in.
"The people?" Izaya questioned- and the blond couldn't help but think that the flea looked actually confused by what he was saying. Was it not him? Doubt was lingering on his mind for a small moment.
"They just stopped, right with what they were doing as if- I don't know," he groaned, "As if they had frozen up or something like that," and then the raven´s expression suddenly lit up.
Turning around the blond watched the raven in confusion as he was entirely ignored and headed to his desk instead.
"I swear if you are ignoring me now and just go to work again I will-" but oh, it seemed that wasn't what the flea was doing, because suddenly he turned around again, a rubber in his palm- and with an easy motion it was tossed into the air.
Tossed- only for it to suddenly stop midway.
Blinking the blond watched the object, thought for a moment that he was imagining things, but no-
"What?" confusion tormented his expression for a moment as he looked at the object- frozen in the middle of the air, only to resume its fall within a matter of seconds.
"So it doesn't work on you, huh- interesting," the raven suddenly said, placing the little object back onto his desk.
"Wait, what doesn´t work on me?" the blond was kinda having a really hard time to believe that he had actually witnessed a show of… magic right now.
"Ah don't tell me you have never heard about this?" Izaya hummed, a bit disappointed by this unforeseen turn of events, but hey. Having gained the ability to stop time, even if it just were a few seconds, he could teal with the downside of SHizu-chan not being affected by it.
After all- that meant Izaya could stop the things the blond threw after him and just laugh while he stepped aside with ease~
The annoyance reflecting on the blond´s expression would only increase tenfold~!
"That's why I'm asking, what the hell is this, this that you are talking about?" Shizu-chan questioned impatient.
"Powers, Shizu-chan. Under certain circumstances-" ah no, he wasn't sure he wanted to word it that way. Because the…. certain circumstances were referred to nothing else but the fact that they were having sex on a quite regular, and … frequent basis.
He had suggested this to take precautions in case he blond decided to quit the promise he had given. After all, the possibility was fairly high in Izaya's opinion- so hey. By now he already knew the blond probably wasn't going to leave anytime soon- but telling him about his lie would only backfire in two ways. For one they would have less appointments from now on and Izaya would lose his powers again- and moreover, revealing to the blond that he had been tricked might as well end up in the blond quitting his promise after all.
Clearing his throat the raven continued, "In special cases, some incubus develop a sort of skill, ability or power." Yep, this was the best way to word it. With a grin the raven threw the rubber upwards one more time. Stopping mid air it hovered again as he grinned. "I just discovered this recently~"
"So you- are you stopping time or some shit?" the blond repeated slowly- not quite sure he wasn't rambling nonsense, because- time stopping, really? It sounded as though he was talking about some kind of movie and yet the raven merely grinned at the blond.
"Bingo~! I didn't think you wouldn´t be affected though," he announced with a nonchalant shrug, and honestly at that moment the blond couldn't help but think that izaya was probably the only person that could accept something mind blowing like suddenly having a superpower as easy as this.
"So the stuff that happened today was your doing after all!" Suddenly realization made the blond return to the present and out of this thoughts as his forehead knitted into a familiar displeased frown.
"Wow you are really fast to catch on things Shizu-chan," the raven complimented with a slight hint of sarcasm as he rolled his eyes.
"Can you stop that while I'm out at work flea?" Shizuo continued, trying his best to keep calm as that smirky grin sneaked onto Izaya's expression.
"Does it annoy you~?" Bad question. If he said no the flea was most probably going to annoy him even more using those powers, and if he said yes- well same result. He would use it just to get him mad still.
"I swear if you keep stopping my time just to piss me off I will make you regret it," he responded instead, "maybe I will develop some kind of power too and then I will fuck up all of your shady business," he knew that it was quite the empty threat considering he didn't even know whether he could develop something of that sort but hey-
"You?" the raven snorted, "I doubt that. You don't even know what exactly or who exactly I'm working with." Ah- talking about it, eyes flickering up the raven's lips curled into a grin as he approached the blond.
"Ah, while you are already here-" talking about work had reminded him of another experiment he had wanted to test.
"What are you-"
Suddenly the flea was just close, brushing across the blond´s skin, looking at him closely with those red eyes of his.
Shizuo didn't exactly know why but just for the brink of a second he thought the flea was going to kiss him. Except- he didn't. He was just close, his hand touching his own as the raven surveilled the blond.
"Hm, doesn´t work," Izaya suddenly announced, the confusing moment passing as fast as it had appeared as his palm left off the blond´s skin.
"What?" Confused the blond looked at his hand, looked back at the flea that was now moving back behind his loved desk.
"Oh I just tested if maybe I could stop your time in case I touch you, but as you noticed I didn't get quite the result I wanted to."
If he could stop his time when he-
"Oh." So basically that meant Shizuo was unaffected by the flea´s magic skill? …. that wasn't the worst actually. That meant he flea couldn't pull any bullshit stunts on him at least.
"Anything else you wanna complain about?" snapping out of his thoughts the blond blinked at the raven-
"No- just don't use that stuff all the time, it's annoying," he mumbled, feeling like he was talking to a child though. As if izaya was going to listen to him.
A wave, accompanied by a, "Sure, sure~" followed.
Well it wasn't as if Izaya was going to use his power too excessively- after all he had no idea in how far the usage of this power was affecting his energy levels- he could really skip on reliving another near death- or rather near -disappearance experience.
The blond turned around, left the office and with a quick click the door shut right behind the blond´s back.
…
Letting his hand trail to his neck the blond pulled a cigarette out of his pant's pocket. He was annoyed- not by the flea´s new powers but by the string of thoughts that were swarming inside his head again. He had come to tell the flea off, only to find himself getting confused over the same thing again. The flea- the flea and just the way he- ah he didn't know.
It was hard to pinpoint, there was just this sudden feeling of closeness, the sudden urge to just touch the flea in a non sexual way.
Just imagining the way he had simply touched his palm was lingering in his mind all of a sudden.
It was funny, because despite the obviously erotic sight considering what they had done Shizuo was more drawn to a simple action like this. Seriously maybe he was losing his mind if he wanted the flea to get all cuddly close with him.
Shizuo couldn't help but feel silly being this delighted over such little gestures. Even more so considering that the flea merely needed him to survive. They weren't even friends- they were enemies, that tried to kill each other ever since high school.
Seriously something was wrong with his brain here.
Must be all the fucking that drove him nuts.
to be continued~
Awwwwwwww is shizu shizu falling for the flea sowly~?
hehe next chapter is gonna start with the next smutty kink again xD See you on May the 24th~!
unknown: ohoho did your questions get answered~? C; xD oh you asked another good question~ will others ever find out about their deal? hmmm well you will see xd in the far far future i suppose xD awwww thank you 3 hehe it´s only because of you all that I even write these story ideas down in the first place ;3
Guest 2: xD aww haha yeah he loves that side of Shizu-chan xD and hehe i think soon i will be bringing up even more of that~ hint- next time Shizuo might be the one to forget about their appointment again C; xD awwww of course they would suit each other freaking perfectly daw I hope the power didn't lose any of its attractivity xD It´s quite limited after all haha
Smiley: xDD ahaha I thought the nosebleed was the best lmao he deserved that for all the pranks xD ohhhh you ask interesting questions- well lets just say you will find out soon C; some of your questions answers that is xD I think most of them got revealed this chapter haha